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maybe I did not pay attention but the name "Duke Nukem Forever" probably just meant to indicate how long it would take to develop the whole thing. Or maybe how long they wanted to stay on the vaporware list?!
SuSE 9.0 is supposed to be ready for kernel 2.6 as far as the necessary tool versions are concerned (listed at Kerneltrap).
SuSE keeps unofficial RPMs on their ftp server but will probably wait for their next distro release until they upgrade). Currently the server only lists test kernels. They have done a lot as far as backporting features of the 2.6 kernel are concerned, so the incentives for switching to 2.6 are not as numerous as for other distro users).
Well, I know/. readers do not like SuSE, but anyway...:-)
Just wanted to mention that waste.exe seems to run fine on linux with a recent wine version. Chat and filetransfer works fine. The only thing that made it crash for me, was when I aborted and resumed a transfer.
One thing though: I did not run the installer. Instead I just copied the directory from my Windows partition.
I hope I did not ruin your day. Punctuation in a foreign language can be tricky when your mother language has different punctuation rules. Not, everyone, speaks, english, as, their, mother, language - whoops.....
The code is property of Nullsoft. Nullsoft is a subsidiary of AOL. That does not necessarily make all code released by Nullsoft property of AOL. Property and control due to majority of the shares are two different things.
Nullsoft ran into the problem, that AOL told them to pull "waste" from Nullsoft's site, but the program was already spreading on the internet.
Though the release was legal, because the program was not technically AOL's property, Nullsoft tries to limit the spread by releasing a FUD notice on the download page.
The only legal consequences this can have, is between parent and subsidiary. Not between them and an end-user, who downloaded the program under the GPL.
FYI, it's not. Nullsoft has been running this site under www.nullsoft.com with their own software for a loooong time. Winamp and Shoutcast have their own sites, and this one has been there at least as long.
It has seen a redesign recently, I admit.
BTW, more or less the same thing happened, when they released gnutella on that same site.
I will keep sharing this for a long time, my machine is up at least 12h/day.
hopefully, some clever coder will come up with a linux built. I hate having to use windows for this...
I know you/.'ers like bittorrent, but I haven't found the time to check that out.
Have a nice weekend, y'all.
it strikes me as odd to see that just another m$ based handheld makes the frontpage on/., yet other interesting gadgets like fossil's second attempt at the wrist pda (now running palm os) don't...
excuse me if this has already been said (amoung the gazillions of posts above:-) ) but one of the most common acronyms in the linux world is RTFM. Written exactly like that, because it's mostly used as an exclamation.
I've been using Windows for years, but changed to linux because I did not want cracked software on my PC and did not want to pay for some of te programs either. Having tried linux in different kernel versions off and on (mostly suse distros), aside from the gui problem, I _always_ had to google, rtfm etc to get some things to run. Even with SuSE 8.0, which claims to be so working out-of-the-box. Nevetheless noone in the linux world wants to accept, that the average user does not want to wade though shelves of literature on linux to solve his or her problems. That's the reason for Windows only having a tiny manual, that has almost no content aside from some quickstart notes. And I don't see the point, why people should rtfm. Things should work in the first place - that's what an ordinaty user thinks. Most people don't have an idea, what's behind that desktop background picture, and they simply don't care and don't want to be bothered with technicalities.
excuse me if I'm wrong, but my understanding of the matter was, that source address spoofing etc. would be gone, once ipv6 is widely used. asfaik, ipv6 would prevent lots of techniques in this context, so why waste lots of emergy/work on this, instead of actually getting people to switch to ipv6.
ipv6 has been around for some time now and is implemented in every major os (both client and server). I know that the switch to ipv6 is a big task, but the way I understand it, it would also deal with a lot of problems (including to a certain extent ddos) in context with ipv4.
afaik, this has already been used for police investigatios etc in europe for a long time. each time a gsm moves into the area of a certain mast, it registers with the mast. this, in connection with triangulation makes it possible to pinpoint locations. the method is well known, but might be new to u.s. citizens, as mobile telephony in the u.s. technologically lies behind european standards. pin-pointing gsm in the u.s. is probably harder, as the distances from mast to mast are larger, though one might be able to narrow down the results using signal strenght during a phone call as an additional variable. just a thought though...
how naive can people be, to think that just by stating that they had good intentions, the government is freed from their duty to protect its information. it is in the public interest to check whether there has been a leak.
last not least, breaking into someone's house is a crime, and the consent needed for it not to be, cannot be substituted by good intentions.
i ran into the same problem. this news post is obsolete: first of all, the release of peekabooty was reportet elsewhere earlier and secondly, mentioning camera/shy in the topic and then not providing a link to is pretty much useless
If I'm not mistaken, one of Germany's largest international airports, Frankfurt am Main Airport also offers wireless services. It's been some time since I read about it. It was supposed to be free only during a test phase though. After that, you'd have to pay a certain fee. Still helps to shorten the waiting time for a plane:).
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maybe I did not pay attention but the name "Duke Nukem Forever" probably just meant to indicate how long it would take to develop the whole thing. Or maybe how long they wanted to stay on the vaporware list?!
SuSE 9.0 is supposed to be ready for kernel 2.6 as far as the necessary tool versions are concerned (listed at Kerneltrap).
/. readers do not like SuSE, but anyway... :-)
SuSE keeps unofficial RPMs on their ftp server but will probably wait for their next distro release until they upgrade). Currently the server only lists test kernels. They have done a lot as far as backporting features of the 2.6 kernel are concerned, so the incentives for switching to 2.6 are not as numerous as for other distro users).
Well, I know
Just wanted to mention that waste.exe seems to run fine on linux with a recent wine version. Chat and filetransfer works fine. The only thing that made it crash for me, was when I aborted and resumed a transfer.
One thing though: I did not run the installer. Instead I just copied the directory from my Windows partition.
I hope I did not ruin your day. Punctuation in a foreign language can be tricky when your mother language has different punctuation rules. Not, everyone, speaks, english, as, their, mother, language - whoops.....
your post misses one thing:
The code is property of Nullsoft. Nullsoft is a subsidiary of AOL. That does not necessarily make all code released by Nullsoft property of AOL. Property and control due to majority of the shares are two different things.
Nullsoft ran into the problem, that AOL told them to pull "waste" from Nullsoft's site, but the program was already spreading on the internet.
Though the release was legal, because the program was not technically AOL's property, Nullsoft tries to limit the spread by releasing a FUD notice on the download page.
The only legal consequences this can have, is between parent and subsidiary. Not between them and an end-user, who downloaded the program under the GPL.
FYI, it's not. Nullsoft has been running this site under www.nullsoft.com with their own software for a loooong time. Winamp and Shoutcast have their own sites, and this one has been there at least as long.
It has seen a redesign recently, I admit.
BTW, more or less the same thing happened, when they released gnutella on that same site.
just in case the web mirror get's pulled too, here are the edonkey links:
nullsoft_waste-source.zip nullsoft_waste-source.tar.gz nullsoft_waste-setup.exe
I will keep sharing this for a long time, my machine is up at least 12h/day.
hopefully, some clever coder will come up with a linux built. I hate having to use windows for this... I know you /.'ers like bittorrent, but I haven't found the time to check that out.
Have a nice weekend, y'all.
it strikes me as odd to see that just another m$ based handheld makes the frontpage on /., yet other interesting gadgets like fossil's second attempt at the wrist pda (now running palm os) don't...
excuse me if this has already been said (amoung the gazillions of posts above :-) ) but one of the most common acronyms in the linux world is RTFM. Written exactly like that, because it's mostly used as an exclamation.
I've been using Windows for years, but changed to linux because I did not want cracked software on my PC and did not want to pay for some of te programs either. Having tried linux in different kernel versions off and on (mostly suse distros), aside from the gui problem, I _always_ had to google, rtfm etc to get some things to run. Even with SuSE 8.0, which claims to be so working out-of-the-box. Nevetheless noone in the linux world wants to accept, that the average user does not want to wade though shelves of literature on linux to solve his or her problems. That's the reason for Windows only having a tiny manual, that has almost no content aside from some quickstart notes. And I don't see the point, why people should rtfm. Things should work in the first place - that's what an ordinaty user thinks. Most people don't have an idea, what's behind that desktop background picture, and they simply don't care and don't want to be bothered with technicalities.
excuse me if I'm wrong, but my understanding of the matter was, that source address spoofing etc. would be gone, once ipv6 is widely used. asfaik, ipv6 would prevent lots of techniques in this context, so why waste lots of emergy/work on this, instead of actually getting people to switch to ipv6.
ipv6 has been around for some time now and is implemented in every major os (both client and server). I know that the switch to ipv6 is a big task, but the way I understand it, it would also deal with a lot of problems (including to a certain extent ddos) in context with ipv4.
please correct me if I'm wrong.
afaik, this has already been used for police investigatios etc in europe for a long time. each time a gsm moves into the area of a certain mast, it registers with the mast. this, in connection with triangulation makes it possible to pinpoint locations. the method is well known, but might be new to u.s. citizens, as mobile telephony in the u.s. technologically lies behind european standards. pin-pointing gsm in the u.s. is probably harder, as the distances from mast to mast are larger, though one might be able to narrow down the results using signal strenght during a phone call as an additional variable. just a thought though...
how naive can people be, to think that just by stating that they had good intentions, the government is freed from their duty to protect its information. it is in the public interest to check whether there has been a leak.
last not least, breaking into someone's house is a crime, and the consent needed for it not to be, cannot be substituted by good intentions.
i ran into the same problem. this news post is obsolete: first of all, the release of peekabooty was reportet elsewhere earlier and secondly, mentioning camera/shy in the topic and then not providing a link to is pretty much useless
If I'm not mistaken, one of Germany's largest international airports, Frankfurt am Main Airport also offers wireless services. It's been some time since I read about it. It was supposed to be free only during a test phase though. After that, you'd have to pay a certain fee. Still helps to shorten the waiting time for a plane :).